animal house in 1977. the movie, about an out—of—control fraternity, incorporated some of reitman�*s own experiences of college and helped begin audiences' tastes for gross—out comedy. i'm a zit — get it? he turned to directing. his working relationship with bill murray, which reached its peak with ghostbusters, began with reitman directing him in films like meatballs and stripes. where the hell have you been, soldier? training, sir! what kind of training, son? army training, sir! he also developed a strong partnership with arnold schwarzenegger. reitman cast him injunior, kindergarten cop, and theirfirst film together, twins. my name isjulius, and i'm your twin brother. 0h, obviously! the moment i sat down, i thought i was looking into a mirror!

have you missed us? and last year, he produced ghostbusters sequel afterlife. he was a filmmaker who changed the course of cinema forever. ivan reitman, who has died at the age of 75. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. i have news of two storms which will impact the uk this weekend, some very turbulent weather indeed. —— this week. and it is because we've got this powerfuljet this week. and it is because we've got this powerful jet stream this week. and it is because we've got this powerfuljet stream driving these deepening low pressure systems towards our shores, some differences on where they will impact as well. if you're heading out for the rest of the afternoon, you can see quite clearly here we have got some rain to come, sinking southwards, with

some sunny intervals as well, quite a really wind compared to the weekend, but temperatures are actually 0k weekend, but temperatures are actually ok for the time of year, even with the rain we are looking at 7-10. but the even with the rain we are looking at 7—10. but the temperatures are really not the story this week, it is the strength of the wind, and the rain. it will be briefly dry overnight tonight, and following the rain we will see a touch of frost but already after midnight, the next weather front is coming in of the atlantic, together with hill snow and strengthening winds but certainly not the winds that we are talking about later in the week. for the start on tuesday, brighter spells coming through behind, but the rain slow to clear in the south and in the north. between it we will see some wintry showers and sunny spells. temperatures similar to today. but already we have got the next area of rain waiting in the wings. and it will be banneds of rain, one after the other, this week. later on wednesday we will be impacted by the first of the storms.

those straight lines on the isobars mean some very considerable wind strengths. there will be some snow on the hills but the wind will really escalate later in the day although temperatures could be up to 17 in the south, it is a very energetic weather system coming in, with a lot of mild air. this is the weather warning covering areas of scotland and northern ireland and northern england. gusts of potentially 90mph, bringing down trees, causing disruption to transport, throughout the night on wednesday and into the start of thursday it is still very mild on thursday it is still very mild on thursday but we don't get much of a respite before the next storm comes in, which looks set to impact more of england and wales. just a yellow warning at the moment for this system, although there is some uncertainty, but easily it could be very powerful and destructive. to add to that, some potential blizzards in the north on the northern edge of that low pressure

system, with quite significant snow blowing around in the strong winds. that's it, so goodbye from me. now on bbc one, let'sjoin our news teams where you are. have a very good afternoon. good afternoon, i'm chetan pathak with your latest sports news. straight to beijing where day ten is drawing to a close, but one of great britain's medal hopes are in action right now. it's not quite gone to plan so for brad hall and nick gleeson in the two—man bobsleigh event. they're currently in 11th after their first run in their heat. meanwhile it's been a good day for britain's men's curling team. they got their fifth win of the round robin stage with a very close victory over switzerland — winning 6—5 with the final stone. team gb�*s women are

in action right now. they're facing canada — who were one of the favourites for gold before the games begun. and they are leading 4—2. need to secure three points so work to do for gb�*s women. there's finally been some good news for team gb on the slopes, where there'll be two brits in tomorrow's slopestyle final. 17—year—old kirsty muir here and her british team mate katie summerhayes made it through qualifying. muir finished in sixth and will be hoping for even more tomorrow, while summerhayes qualified in tenth. tomorrow, 15—year—old russian skater kamila valieva will be back on the ice. she's been told she can continue competing after sport's highest court ruled she shouldn't be suspended. valieva's future at the games had been unclear after news emerged that she'd failed a drugs test in december.

however, the court of arbitration for sport says she the fact she's under 16 means she's a "protected person" and preventing her from skating at the games would have cause her "irreparable harm". the decision from cas has led to criticism from wada and the us olympic committee, while the international olympic committee says they accept the decision but it doesn't clear valieva of anti—doping — only that she can continue to compete whilst the process of examining december�*s positive sample goes on. because of that, the ioc says there will not be a medal ceremony for the figure skating team event in which valieva was part of the russia team that won gold. the ioc also says there'll will be no ceremony if valieva medals in the individual event. all ceremonies will be arranged once the case has been concluded. in the interest of fairness to all athletes and the national committee is concerned, it would not be a puppet to hold the medal ceremony for the figure skating team event

during the olympic went to games in beijing 2022 as it would include an athlete who on the one hand has a positive sample but, but the rules have not been established regarding doping on the other side. in the premier league, newcastle's hopes of avoiding relegation from the premier league have been setback. the club's confirmed today that kieran trippier�*s fractured his foot. the defender scored the only goal in their win against aston villa yesterday and has played a key role in their recent run of three successive wins. european football's governing body uefa says it'll give away 30,000 free tickets to fans of the teams involved in this season's major european club finals. this year's champions league final is at the gazprom stadium in russia and each finalist will receive 5,000 tickets per club, with 4,000 going to both sides in the europa league final. finalists in the europa conference league and the women's champions league will get 3000 tickets each. uefa says the offer is a reward for support during the pandemic.

and finally to golf in arizona, where players had to take cover at the latest event on the pga tour. after hitting a hole in one, carlos ortiz says he was hit with a beer can with numerous cans being thrown onto the course. it is allowed though — fans are renowed for throwing drinks here on the 16th — to reward good shots in the tournament. and ortiz didn't mind throwing one back. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. now back to cloud. let's get more on borisjohnson warning that the situation between russia and ukraine is difficult and very, very dangerous. he's insisted that the west needs to make sure that president putin understands the consequences of invading ukraine, but acknowledged that europe was too dependent on russian gas to threaten the most severe economic sanctions. russia denies planning to invade.

mrjohnson was speaking on a visit to scotland as part of his "levelling—up" agenda. i think the evidence is pretty clear. you have got about 230,000 troops massing on the ukrainian border, all sorts of other signs that show there are serious preparations for an invasion and we have got to respect that, we've got to realise this is a very dangerous, difficult situation, we are on the edge of a mess appears but there is still time for president putin to step back. what we are hoping is for everyone to engage in dialogue, for a conversation to take place and for the russians to see what would be a mistake. do you think an invasion could be hours, days away? you heard from president biden that they are

at least planning for something that could take place as early as in the next 48 hours. that is extremely concerning. what we need to do is make sure that president putin understands the economic consequences, the political consequences, the political consequences of doing this. and i think what needs to happen is the world needs to learn the lesson of 2014. if you remember, russia took eastern ukraine, crimea, but we didn't do enough to move away from dependence on russian hydrocarbons and what i think all european countries need to do now is get it out of the bloodstream, yank out that hypodermic drip feed of russian hydrocarbons that is keeping so many european economies going. we need to find alternative sources of energy and get ready to impose some very

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apologise? i you like to take the opportunity to aoloaise? ., you like to take the opportunity to aoloaise? . ., you like to take the opportunity to a halo ise? ., ., ., apologise? i have said more than enou:h apologise? i have said more than enough about _ apologise? i have said more than enough about that _ apologise? i have said more than enough about that issue. - alar karis is the president of estonia — which has been a nato member since 2004. the uk is doubling its contribution to the nato force in estonia. he was asked how close we were to a war. i think nobody knows that because there are so many speculations around that i guess the only person who knows is president putin. but he doesn't give an answer. he has given an answer that there is not going to be any war. so it is difficult to understand what is going on in that sense. as you see, all of these diplomatic ways of de—escalating the situation, we don't see it at the moment. at the same time, we should also continue with diplomatic ways of talking to russia.

but at the same time, we have to be ready for deterrents and so forth, because this is the only thing probably that russia does understand. a spokesman for ukraine's president insisted his country's ambition is still to join nato, as set out in its constitution, despite the ukrainian ambassador to britain, suggesting otherwise, as a means of avoiding war — a position he's since clarified saying ukraine wants to feel safer as part of the nato family. russia has long wanted ukraine to drop its desire tojoin the military alliance. the ukrainian ambassador to the uk, vadym prystaiko, has been speaking to my colleaguejoanna gosling. our declaration, we told that we will try to build our assertive state on our own, we'll defend ourselves, then we tried different things. we signed so many documents with russia, and some of them i mentioned, like the stationing of the fleet in crimea until 2017, and they are still there. like nuclear weapons in exchange for our defence guarantees. nothing happened.

we just can't find anything we can trust signed by russia on paper. and in terms of what might be done now to avert conflict, and nato membership being the kind of key part on the table, where do you see talks now? do you think that there can be discussions? i believe that there is still a very slim possibility when the united position of the west will be enough without, you know, going really to fight each other. and we still believe that this, even wednesday, it's not the date, it's not doomsday when everybody... frankly speaking, we have tv channels scheduling time with me on wednesday, waiting for the reports of something catastrophic. we hope that this can be really avoided. do you believe that there is any way that ukraine could become a member of nato as long as vladimir putin

is in charge in russia? we've been trying for 20 years. i would like to shorten this period. in 2008, we were promised that we would become... it's 13 years already. that's the best guarantee we can have but, unfortunately, we can, you know, beg, we can scratch on the door of nato, feel the humiliation to ask each and every second, begging them, but unfortunately, we still haven't the answer from them. there is no consensus among nations of nato sitting around the table. some of these nations were in the same bloc, soviet—led bloc, but some of them forgot how terrible it was. but some of them, like baltic states, poland, our neighbours, they do remember it on the level of human memory, and they support us each and every time. canada, united states, the uk, some nations are supporting. some of them, unfortunately not. so just be clear, then, you would rather go to war than to say that ukraine would not be members...? we will not go to war. we are not going to war. we are trying everything we are doing to avoid this.

but if nato membership is the only thing that's going to avert it, some sort of movement on that position, and you're saying you won't do it... imagine now a situation, we agree with the russians on something, and everybody believes that the position is ok, everything's fine, they return to barracks. what will preclude russians to come next month if we are not a part of something bigger, which will allow us to defend ourselves? you will lose interest, the bbc will lose interest, and they will come next month. the duchess of cornwall is self—isolating after testing positive for covid—19. in a statement, clarence house said "we continue to follow government guidelines". the duchess' husband, the prince of wales, cancelled an event after testing positive for the virus on thursday. staff at 68 uk universities are taking part in a wave of strike action over the next three weeks. more than one million students will be hit as members of the university and college union take part in a long—running dispute over pensions, pay and conditions.

it sounds like the sort of nightmare that keeps actors awake at night, walking out on stage not knowing their lines and without a single rehearsal. but that's exactly what a host of celebrities including sir ian mckellen and dame emma thompson are doing on purpose in order to save a theatre. it is every performer�*s worst nightmare. you are on stage but you don't know your next line. will you please stop shouting? phew! just in time. but it was not that the actor simon callow had forgotten his script, because he's never actually seen it. instead, in this unique show, a man hiding in a side room is feeding the words into simon's earpiece, one line at a time. you were the last person to see the captain alive, were you not?

myjob is not to be nervous. there are the ones normally who are nervous and it is so sweet, because these are people at the top of their game coming in and saying, "ah..." but also if there is a mistake you have not yet anticipated, just i suppose making sure they feel as supported as possible as quickly as possible. the show, called whodunnit unrehearsed, is being performed at park theatre in north london. this intimate venue with around 200 seats, like many others, was hit hard by the pandemic, but they are hoping this run of shows will help towards their £300,000—a—year running costs, with a little help from 41 different celebrity celebrity inspectors, including gillian anderson, sanjeev bhaskar, emma thompson, harry hill, sue perkins, ross kemp, joanna lumley, ronan keating and maureen lipman. i think a lot of people think,

"yeah, surely we give them the script, really," and it isjust a gimmick we are saying that, but the reality is that is the joy of the ask, there is no prep, you have never seen the script and i call up and email and say, "this is the concept, you need to turn up at 7.30 one day, you can only do it once, you give up a couple of hours of your time, you don't have to prepare anything." people responded so well to it. a recent study by sheffield university estimates the arts, culture and heritage sectors suffered a 60% decline in output during covid restrictions, so selling out these fundraising shows has been a lifeline. i have not done anything like it before, every show is different every night, so in terms of acting in it, it's very much keeping you on your toes and you have to react to whatever is put in front of you, which is actually quite exciting. and it is notjust the cast being kept on their toes, with audience members completely unaware of who they will be seeing until the show starts. really, really enjoying it,

having a good time, really missed being in an audience. i wasn't expecting itl to be so unprepared. it is so very obvious. quite a lot of the time, _ he doesn't know what is going on. it's a lot of fun, it feels quite cruel watching him being played with by the other actors, but it is a lot of fun. how was it for tonight's celebrity victim? sorry, actor. i think almost anybody rises to the occasion. it is a bit like doing charades. kind of wonderful and terrifying at the same time. cos even though you have got this thing in your ear, you are speaking as the guy who is reading the lines is speaking simultaneously, and you might miss something. honestly, in this situation, whatever you do will be great. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good afternoon. two storms will impact the uk this week. the first one, dudley,

arriving on wednesday and lasting into thursday, and then eunice on friday. now both storms will cause some damage and disruption. the reason that we're seeing such powerful low pressures coming in is the strength of the jet at the moment, the jet stream in the upper atmosphere, driving those deepening lows across oui’ shores. slightly different areas affected, which i'll talk about in just a moment. but for the rest of the day, we'll continue to see this rain easing southwards, wintry showers following in the north and sunny spells, and the breeze is starting to ease away. but it is a little on the chilly side compared with yesterday, even though temperatures are actually a bit above average for early february or mid february. then the showers, the rain continues to ease away to start tonight. under a ridge of high pressure, the winds fall light. we're likely to see some frost temporarily and even some ice where we've had the day's rain. but as you can see, soon after midnight, the next area of rain and hill snow is marching in off the atlantic. it's a very, what we call, mobile weather picture this week, with one area of rain after another and strong winds too. so initially, some brightness

in the south east, that fades. the rain drags its heels to clear here and in the far north, but in between sunnier spells and a scattering of showers and temperatures very similar to those of today. but indeed, by the end of the day tomorrow, already the next area of rain, the next weather system is approaching the west of ireland. that's this area of low pressure. that's the first storm, that's dudley. it looks really nasty across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england by the time we get to tea—time. initially, we'll see some dry weather first thing before that rain becomes more widespread, a little bit of hill snow as well to be found here. but look at how mild it is across southern parts — england and wales — 16s and 17s, potentially. but it has prompted an orange warning, an amberwarning from the met office, this storm because we're expecting winds to 90 miles an hour in some exposed locations, but hitting the likes of southern and central scotland, northern england and northern ireland, even into thursday morning. so really giving quite a battering here.

then it quietens down later thursday before the next storm winds itself up. this one could affect areas further south across much of england and wales, but also fringing into northern ireland, scotland, with a significant amount of snow and blizzards to go with it in the north. the warnings are on the website.

this is bbc news. the headlines... as fears continue to grow of a russian invasion of ukraine, the foreign secretary will lead a meeting of the government's emergency cobra committee this afternoon, and borisjohnson warns russian military action could be imminent. the signs are, as you heard from president biden, that they are at least planning for something that could take place as early as in the next 48 hours. german chancellor olaf scholz is meeting the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, as part of diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions in the region. the public inquiry opens into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub—postmasters, accused of theft because of a faulty it system. we need compensation for everybody, we need justice for everyone. we need some people to at least

face the consequences of what they've done to us.